I’ve been planning to visit Odessa, Ukraine for years yet always something went wrong. I’ve had tickets for a long weekend at the Black Sea and two days before departure I…
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The first time I was lucky to travel to Tbilisi was in autumn 2011, way before low-cost flights started serving Georgia. I was freaking out before the trip as it was…
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Lithuania must be one of the least known countries in Europe. And when someone eventually visits it most likely it is Vilnius – the beautiful capital (that’s especially the case of…
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The whole idea to visit Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine came from one picture I’ve found online. A picture showing a grand railway station, a perfect example of architecture from the times of Austria-Hungary.…
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The story is always the same: I find a really good deal on flights to the place I’ve been dreaming of for a long time, I check if dates around some…
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Ukraine is probably the most misunderstood country in Europe. The crisis that hit it not so much time ago is still very vivid in our minds – I bet we all…
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If you ask in Poland a generation of my parents about Batumi, Georgia they will all tell you about famous and somehow mythical tea fields. But that’s most likely all they…
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One of the reasons why I wanted to visit Chisinau was to go on a daytrip to Transnistria – a breakaway territory that is officially part of Moldova. I’ve always been…
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It took me three visits (well, three and a half) to finally warm up to Riga. I used to think it’s pretty much soulless and kind of fake, now I believe…
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Of all the countries in Central Asia, Kazakhstan was the one that least interested me, simply because I had no idea what to expect from it. While I had some basic…